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Jason Bowen

@NanoRaptor I wouldn't buy an Apple product to begin with, but the touch bar and no physical ESC key always felt openly hostile to vi/vim users.

17 Nov 2023 at 21:33 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mast.hpc.social
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

@jbowen @NanoRaptor so much so we got them to bring it back

17 Nov 2023 at 22:09 | Open on toot.cafe
Connie 🎷🐄

@jbowen @NanoRaptor Seeing this statement feels weird owning a touch bar with an ESC key.

17 Nov 2023 at 23:04 | Open on chaosfem.tw
Jason Bowen

@connie @NanoRaptor I learned in other replies that later versions brought the ESC key back

18 Nov 2023 at 0:22 | Open on mast.hpc.social
Connie 🎷🐄

@jbowen @NanoRaptor Explains why I have an enjoyable experience using it. Seems like most people tried the first version years ago, and it soured their experience.

18 Nov 2023 at 0:25 | Open on chaosfem.tw
fluffy 💜

@jbowen The last generation of touchbar at least had a physical esc key, but yeah the rest of it was still pretty awful.

17 Nov 2023 at 23:43 | Open on plush.city
varx/social

@jbowen A lot of vim users have remapped the Caps Lock key to Esc. (Similarly, a lot of emacs users map it to Ctrl.) Honestly easier to use that way in the first place!

18 Nov 2023 at 1:54 | Open on cybersecurity.theater
Jason Bowen

@varx The muscle memory for the location of the ESC is just so deeply ingrained at this point. I can't imagine doing that myself.

18 Nov 2023 at 2:09 | Open on mast.hpc.social
Kee Hinckley

@jbowen @varx I was dealing with too many keyboards with different layouts, so I finally switched to ^[

And yeah, caps lock is control. Even back to the days where it meant disabling the lock on the physical key.

(That said, the image is hilarious.)

18 Nov 2023 at 4:00 | Open on infosec.exchange
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